complex, more than Shakespeare because we know more about the lives of women—Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf included. Both the victimization and the anger experienced by women are real, and have real sources, everywhere in the environment, built into society, language, the structures of thought. They will go on being tapped and explored by poets, among others. We can neither deny them, nor will...

IN A 1965 interview with John Thompson, Judith Wright was asked if she considered herself a ‘nature poet’. She replied, ‘No, I don't. My real interest, I think, is the question of man in nature—man as part of nature. The theory of correspondences that Baudelaire brought forward—the question of nature as a symbol for one's experience has always seemed to me to have a great deal in it.’ Thompson ...

Existing poetry generation systems usually focus on particular features of poetry (such as rhythm, rhyme, metaphor) and specific techniques to achieve them. They often resort to template-base solutions, in which it is not always clear how many of the alleged features of the outputs were already present in the template employed. The present paper considers two specific features – thematic consis...

The process-oriented event-driven transaction systems (POETS) architecture introduced by Henglein et al. is a novel software architecture for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. POETS employs a pragmatic separation between (i) transactional data, that is what has happened; (ii) reports, that is what can be derived from the transactional data; and (iii) contracts, that is which transacti...

Public spaces where culture is co-constructed and performed by a community of people are rich sites for research on identity formation. This thesis explores the poetry slam as a space where poets and audiences co-construct and perform individual and group identities. From a social constructionist approach to identity formation and through the theories and methods of performance studies, the res...

The First World War marks an inevitable transformation in the traditional gender roles of women from being passive domestic sustainers family into active contributors social life as voluntary nurses, ambulance drivers, and factory workers. Nevertheless, women’s poetic contribution to literary representations war continue be precariously neglected till publication Catherine Reilly’s Scars Upon m...

Plato’s attitude toward the poets and poetry has always been a fl ashpoint of debate, controversy and notoriety, but most scholars have failed to see their central role in the ideal cities of the Republic and the Laws, that is, Callipolis and Magnesia. In this paper, I argue that in neither dialogue does Plato “exile” the poets, but, instead, believes they must, like all citizens, KRITERION, Be...